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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... Australian stock market has received a mostly positive lead from offshore trading, after Wall Street closed higher and gold, silver and oil prices settled firmer. But copper and prices finished lower. At 0800 AEST, the September share price index futures ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... market has received a mostly positive lead from weekend offshore trading, after Wall Street closed higher and gold and silver prices settled firmer. But copper and oil prices finished lower. At 0739 AEST, the September share price index futures contract ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... falling sharply during Friday night's (AEST) session. Meanwhile, futures contract prices for commodities such as oil, gold, silver and copper settled weaker on Monday night. The major mining stocks were lower. BHP was down 60 cents, or 1.4 per cent ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... less subject to speculation than stock markets, which is why experienced investors refer to them as leading markets. Oil, silver, sugar, copper and other staples for both consumers and producers have fallen severely in price of late. The selling may ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... government efforts to cool overall growth. Microsoft announced it is buying internet phone pioneer Skype from investor group Silver Lake, the Windows creator's largest-ever acquisition. Microsoft shares lost 0.6 per cent on the news, but shares of eBay ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... $7.02. "There are quite a lot of headwinds for the resources stocks. The gold price fell significantly overnight, as did silver, and oil went down enormously," RBS Morgans private client adviser Bill Bishop said. "So the market is looking forward and ...

Silver bullet downs market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... this is the month of May, my index finger - not the middle one, that would be rude - is pointed straight at Comex and it's silver sniping. The exchange made it more - heaps more - expensive to trade SLV by raising its initial margin requirement. In just ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... 2,828.23. It's up 6.6 per cent this year. Signs that the economic recovery is slowing also dragged down commodity prices. Silver fell for the third day straight, losing 7.5 per cent to settle at $39.39 an ounce. Crude oil slipped 1.6 per cent to $109.24 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... "Apparently, there are some comments from one of the big global investors, George Soros, about him selling off gold and silver investments and that's putting a fair bit of pressure on the commodity currencies, so the Aussie is getting hit pretty hard," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... Gold prices were at a record high at the end of last week but investors became nervous about commodity prices when the silver price plunged in Asia.